ECQA Guidelines
The defined quality criteria and certification rules can be found in the ECQA (European Certification and Qualification Association) guidelines.
- Download the (Zipped PDF) ECQA Guidelines
- Download the (PDF) Self Assessment and Learning Guide
- Download the (PDF) Exam Guide (How to Perform an Exam)
If you have attended a training of trainer course and want to apply to become an ECQA certified trainer please complete the trainer application form and submit it to the ECQA secretariat (see contact section).
- Download the (Zipped Word) ECQA Trainer Application Form
- Download the (Zipped PDF) Guideline for Trainer and Training Body Certification
If you are a training body and you have an ECQA certified trainer as a staff member (precondition) and you want to apply to become an ECQA certified training body please complete the training body application form and submit it to the ECQA secretariat (see contact section).
- Download the (Zipped Word) ECQA Training Body Application Form
- Download the (Zipped Word) ECQA Training Body Agreement
- Download the (Zipped PDF) Guideline for Trainer and Training Body Certification
If you are an organisation or consortium which wants to propose a new European profession for ECQA certification you have to apply the guidelines for ECQA certified job roles. Submit your job role proposal to the ECQA board members (see contact section).
- Download the (Zipped PDF) Job Role Certification Guidance
- Download the (Zipped Word) ECQA Job Role Committee Agreement
If you are an organisation in a Job Role Committee and want to contribute to the annual update of the test questions for the job, thus becoming a member of the ECQA Exam Committee for a specific job role has to apply the guidelines for ECQA certified job roles and sign an Exam Committee Agreement.
- Download the (Zipped Word) ECQA Exam Committee Agreement
If you are a certification body which wants to collaborate with ECQA and certify in the name of ECQA please read the standard ECQA certification body agreement. Submit your proposal to the ECQA board members (see contact section).
- Download the (Zipped Word) ECQA Certification Body Agreement
The rework of the guideline version 3 for ECQA has been funded by the EU Cert Campus LLP project (135691- LLP-1-2007-1-AT-KA3-KA3MP)
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